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701 sats \ 2 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 28 Sep 2023
This is a great read about open source while building a for profit product. Revenue over use for a sustained product that can be better than the closed sourced competition. Open source by itself does not make for a better product, it's often largely worse. Some quotes below that stood out to me:
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @mallardshead 28 Sep 2023
It was good. Liked the mongoDB and Minio examples.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 28 Sep 2023
Yeah tons of examples and software to reference.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @niltempus 28 Sep 2023
Free software is not the same as free beer. Open source is freedom and transparency.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 28 Sep 2023
And unlike beer, it's a non-rival good.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 28 Sep 2023
The English language is very interesting here because "free" can mean freedom and free of charge while other languages will have separate words. So FOSS should always mean freedom but not necessarily absence of payment
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hn OP 28 Sep 2023
This link was posted by thibo_skabgia 56 minutes ago on HN. It received 19 points and 3 comments.
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